Welcome to the fat world of Java. ;) Eclipse is actually already one of the more efficient Java apps, since it uses SWT, which delegates to native GUI libraries.
For anyone developing in Java, I'd recommend a 1GB workstation.
I think that's a bit extreme. My admittedly toylike applications are OK with Eclipse on 512MB. And I'm running OO, Firefox, and Lotus Notes (!) under Crossover at the same time, too.
but, I guess, coming from the stone age development world of Perl (the debugger is craptastic!) any form of IDE is already a huge leap forward for me.
That said, all other things being equal, Visual Studio 2003 is a significantly better piece of work than Eclipse. :P And it's faster, too.
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